Or better still, you can now get the latest listings direct from the
Radio Authority's website in their Licencees section. (the page
may be off line at times for updating) http://www.radioauthority.org.uk/

87.7 Fly in the City Radio
Manchester 16th to 28th September
106.7 Chester FM 22nd of September to 19th of October from
Chester
106.6 7-8 October Soul FM, Fleetwood
*106.2 Elle FM Liverpool 17th of September to 7th October ???

105.9 Sound FM appeared as
usual on Sat. & Sun. They were having trouble with skipping
turntables for a while on Sat. but it all went well after a
while. DJ Kaos did 4 hours on Sunday as Rolex didn't appear.
Website: http://listen.to/soundfm

106.2 Central R. were heard on
Sunday @ 1600 with Jim Brown followed by a taped show with Dave
Collins. The modulation was louder but sometimes distorted. The
only apparent purpose for Central to switch on was to cause
splatter to Lazer. Email: merseypirates@yahoo.com

106.7 Nova returned later in the evining & were on till
midnight with Steve Owen, Roger Dee & Dr. Boogie.

W/E Sunday 3/09/00

Not much activity apart from someone
(probably Central) playing tapes of Tower FM and The Black Shadow
on Sat 2/9

W\E Monday August 28th 2000

A bit of a dissapointment this August
bank holiday with too many stations on the same frequencies on FM
at the same time.

106.2 (or drifting thereabouts) Central
radio was heard from around midnight with Dave Collins announcing
they were on till 0400! Jim Brown was ego-tripping in the
background as usual. The signal was very weak, though. merseypirates@yahoo.com

106.4 Concept FM were on from 1800 with
improved power but due to a different set up they were heard with
a diferent signal strengths than before. The best reception
report was from Geoff driving on the M56 near Frodsham, Cheshire.

106.65 R. Nova was the first on heard @
around midday. Guest preesenters were also heard. Nova moved down
to 106.2 later in the evening. radionova@hotmail.com

106.7 M.A.R. with Bert Williams was on
breifly in the evening and apparently returned @ 0200 on Tuesday
morning.

1431 Liverpool Pirate Radio with Phill
Davies was heard closing down @ 1430 BST. However, despite claims
of LPR 'blasting over the Wirral', the station is only receivable
in parts of Liverpool. I had to use a MW loop to bring in the
signal to a readable level. merseypirates@yahoo.com

WABC Music Radio has announced
that a final transmission will take place soon.

The station is also planning a relaunch under the name
of RNI (Radio Nova International)

From Gary Hogg 4/06/00

106.2MHz Central Radio test on Sunday afternoon
7/5/00.
105.9MHz Non Stop Dance Music on both 6th and 7th May with a very
strong signal here. No announcements heard at all.
Was still heard at 0800 Sunday morning before I went to
work.

No sign of the Blackpool station heard the previous weekend.

1575kHz RNI heard again in the early evening on Sunday before the
Spanish came in strong.

Gary

From Gary Hogg W\E 28/05/00

Unidentified station I heard strong on 105.9MHz the previous
weekend turned out to be Sound FM. The signal was
just as strong this weekend here, and infact is the strongest FM
signal I've heard from Merseyside since Cruise FM.

Central heard just after 2pm on 106.2 on Sunday aternoon with
Dave Collins. Had disappeared when I tried around 4pm.

Not heard the station from Blackpool on 107.0 for two weeks.

By the way I heard my name mentioned on Central a couple of weeks
ago. Presume my mail must have got through to them.

Thursday night/Friday morning heard through the noise
on the medium wave on 1575khz 190m the close down of Radio
Northsea (RSL),could not make out who it was sounded like either
Carl Mitchel or Paul Maclaren.
Friday evening around 21:55pm heard again RNI,too much
interferance from an Italian station,this subsided around 23:50pm
could only just hear RNI.
On Saturday 15th at 22:00hrs heard on 3.395mhz 76metres what was
first thought to be a relay of RNI,turned out to be someone
broadcasting a tape of RNI from the Mebo II March 8th
1970,quality not bad at all,heard at least 3hours of the station
which identified as Laser HotHits.A very interesting station,good
programming.
To day Sunday 16th April,not a lot heard except for what appears
to be LPR Liverpool Pirate Radio some where between 1420 and
1431khz210/211m,modulation very poor and almost no signal
strength even with a 100ft aerial connected to the
receiver.Receivers in use are Trio 9R-59DS 550khz-30mhz and also
Matsui digital portable,150-281khz LW/520-1620khz
MW/1500khz-30.000mhz SW and FM 87.5-108mhz.
Both of these receivers give account of them selves.regards
Steve.
(WABC may be on this bank holiday with it's own programs and
relays of RNI via the internet.
Cheers,bye for now.

Notice of Intent.Notice to all free radio stations, Please keep the
frequency 106.7mhz
clear.WABC Music Radio will be testing within the next 2 to 3
weeks in preparation for transmissions through the Easter &
Summer holidays.
WABC will be using an output power of 100 watts,the test format
will consist of non stop music with email/mailing address and
phone number being given at regular intervals. During the Easter
holidays WABC Music Radio can be heard transmitting in the
shortwave bands.

106.25 Central FM. Heard on 03/01/00
from 1200 with some of the original crew inc. Phill Davies, Mark
Evans Jim Brown and Tom Webb.
106.4 Concept Radio (Millenuim Broadcast on 31/12 with Jim Lowe
and Keith.)
106.5 Lazer hot hits Heard on 25/12. (also reported to have been
on 104.7 and 105.00). Email: lazer_hothits@hotmail.com

Tom Lodge, the founder of Station M in the
early 1980's, sadly passed away on Monday 12th July.

Please note that this is NOT the same person as the original Tom
Lodge from the offshore stations in the 1960's. I don't know if
you ever met Bob (TL), but he was a really nice bloke, and it is
a great shame he is gone. He was only 44 years old. I went to the
funeral yesterday, and saw Roger Dee for the first time in about
10 years. I also saw Eric MOnaghan for the first time in 15
years. Mike Doyle was also there, but I didn't recognise anyone
else.

Roger Dee and Mike Ross (another original Station M guy) are
planning a special one off broadcast on the bank holiday in
August (Aug 30th), as a tribute to TL. It is apparently due to go
out on FM, MW and SW.

Sound FM were heard on 105.7MHz for one weekend,
then seem to have moved up to 105.8. Perhaps they were a
bit close to Century. Not heard
anything else here from Merseyside over the past few weeks.

Phantom FM have been heard again during the past week on 107.0MHz
from
the Lancaster area. They are possibly student at the
University judging
by the comments heard. The signal is quite reasonable here
with an
outside aerial (15 miles away). Music seems to be mainly
dance type and
alternative.

High pressure has brought FM signals in from Eire this
week. Pirate
stations heard include Radio Dublin (100.0), KISS FM Dublin
(105.8),
Vibe FM Dublin(106.4) and Energy 106 (Monaghan - the strongest)
(106.6). A friend heard some other stations on a trip to
West Scotland
on Monday, including Radio North (Donegal)(103.9), Energy 106
(106.6 and
107.7), KISS FM Dundalk (106.0) and Tyrone Community Radio (107.4
approx).

Some of the Dublin stations are closing at the end of June in
order to
try for one of the 6 licenses on offer, so it may be the last
chance to
hear some in their present form.

(Gary Hogg, Poulton Le Fylde)

Previous Reports

Sound FM Frequency Change to 105.7 May 99

Due to a 28 day R.S.L station coming on
on 1st June Sound FM will be moving to a new frequency of 105.7Email: soundfm@merseymail.com

Steve Moorcroft sent us the following
details (24/03/99):

THE FUTURE IS SOUNDGood Friday 2nd April
is the launch date for Sound F.M @ 6 pm Format to be all genres
of dance music.

Initial broadcasts will be on Sunday's extending to Saturday once
station has been established. Look out for flyers to be hitting
the streets soon. (looking suspiciously like Orange flyers, but
it's all in good fun. Intital test reports from last weekend are
good especially as no one knew we were coming on.

We had reports from Chorley, Winter Hill, Southport, Waterloo, St
Helens, Skem, Parbold and various other locations around
Liverpool and The Wirral.

Keep your ears open we may be doing some more tests this weekend
but due to other commitments in not too sure at the moment.

106.2 The Black Shadow with
Bert Williams has also been testing on Tuesday 23 March with a
repeating oldies format. A bit of frequency minding, I suspect.

106.4 Concept FM were on
Monday 3/5/99 but didn't continue due to interference from
another pirate station.

106.4 CFM was also doing a
full format on most Sundays but have not been heard regularly
during April.

CFM returned on 2nd May on 106.4 with Dave
Collins etc. They were also on Sunday 3rd May with the purpose of
causing interference to Concept FM. A little immature, we think.

They have started test transmissions this
week (end of April) presumably for a Bank Holiday broadcast.

December 1998

Concept goes on high power with RDS

Concept 106.5 was on Sunday
27th December and also New Year's Eve and Sunday 3 January with
some phone guests, Dave Collins, Keith, DJ Kaos and Kev Rogers.
Hopefully will be back on Sunday 2nd January.

Pirate FM 102.2 were on most
evenings with more power and some live stuff including New Years
Eve.

CFM were on 106.5 until Boxing Day, and have
been on only occasionally since. They plan a return on high power
in 1999.

CRUISE
ONEhave announced transmissions on 106.5
on the first Saturday of the month starting on Saturday 5th
September at 8PM.

This went to schedule until
November 7th when they didn't appear.

This may have been due to
the Rhyl- based RSL on 106.6, Shore FM , which has a licence from
14th November for 28 days, finishing on 12 December.

We have since heard that
there are no plans for any high power broadcasts in the immediate
future.

Cruise One. The Story So
Far

They were testing on 106.5
with a good signal on 5/7 and 19/8/98. Gary Hogg reported 5 out
of 5 reception on the Fylde coast on the first test. This time,
(19/8) BDXC member, Nigel Watkinson reported strong reception in
North Wales and Manchester.They were also on Saturdays 5th
September and 3rd October. Next Scheduled broadcast: 7/11/98.

Here are some CRUISE ONE reception reports
recieved on Saturday 5th Sept......

"NIGEL - WARRINGTON - 4 out of 8 on
indoor dipole. MADDIE - LANCASTER - Noisy stereo on indoor
portable. IAN - STOCKPORT - Nearly as strong as Key 103. PAUL -
COLNE (Nr Blackburn) - Good signal on indoor dipole. STUART -
TELFORD - Same strength as MFM 103.4 VARIOUS GOOD SIGNAL REPORTS
FROM BLACKPOOL EXCELLENT SIGNAL IN PRESTON CENTRE (outdoor
aerial) JULIAN - CREWE - Picking us up on T.V aerial!??!! GOOD
SIGNAL IN MACCLESFIELD CENTRE GOOD SIGNAL ON CLOCK RADIO IN
TAMESIDE BOOMING INTO CHESTER "The strongest thing on the
band" according to someone listening on car radio. VARIOUS
GOOD REPORTS FROM WIRRAL & LIVERPOOL Also we've had calls
from STOKE ON TRENT, GARSTANG, SKEM, BOLTON, PRESTWICH, SWINTON
& SOUTHPORT. RDS working well... Next North West England TX
scheduled for 3/10/98 @ 8PM. We are also planning a TX in LONDON
this week sometime.."

"Cruise 1 heard last night from 10pm
with a test transmission on 106.5, on a journey from N Wales to
central Manchester. From tune-in just West of Rhyl for the
rest of the journey the signal was rock solid, except for a
slight bit of flutter at the M56/M6 junction.

I got the impression though that the
transmission was coming from the North Wales area as the strength
was slightly lower in Manchester. They obviously have
a very good site somewhere. Announced 1kW transmitter
power, and frankly I wouldn't be suprised if that were true.

As an aside when I turned on the car radio
this morning on the same channel there was some splatter audible
which turned out to be Vibe FM on 106.4. Never heard that here
before but managed to listen fairly well al the way into Central
Manchester. "

Nigel Watkinson. British DX Club

Last time Gary Hogg reported :

"I did a comparison of
the signal strengths here of some of the legal stations. Cruise
was about 5, Merseyside 2, Classic FM (101.1) 4, All BBC radio
from Holme Moss 4, Key 103 1. The only stronger ones were Red
Rose and Radio Wave. Intriguing!!"`

Gary.

Pirate FM 102.2
have been on most evenings from 24th August testing, and have
promised regular Monday broadcasts.

Thety have made regular
appearances during December and are on daily over the Chrismas
period with Dave Collins, Radar Roy, Cliff Wilson and DJ
Straighty.

Merseyside FM Stations

87.8 RAW FMDance Music Station.
Occasional Sundays.

102.2 Pirate FM.1980's
+ mixed Music.Occasional Sundays. with Dave Collins, DJ Kaos and
Ming*. They have been testing from 24th August in the evenings.
The DJ heard on August 26th was DJ Straighty with "The
Monging Out Zone". No comment ! They were on August Bank
Holiday Monday 31st August in the evening also. Pirate FM is now
on daily over the Christmas period with Radar Roy from North Coast Radio..

They were last heard on New Years Eve.

Tel:0151 513 1409.

*DJ Kaos and Ming have now gone to CFM.

105.4 Sexy FM.Testing.
Occasionally. (The signal isn't so sexy)

105.4 Studio FM .Occasional
evenings, with Steve Bishop and Gary Noble. last heard on Sat 2nd
May 1998 @ 0320. This is a unique station which reached cult
status when they were recorded and re-broadcast by CDFM. Their
Noble and Bishop show has to be heard to be believed.

106.2 The Black Shadow with
the famous Bert Williams has been testing again (23/3/99) with an
oldies format.

106.2 Tower FM was on over the Christmas
holidays with Bert Williams and Steve Bishop. They have
returned on 23 March.

Tower have not been heard since 30/12. It
has also been reported that Steve Bishop was on in the morning of
30/12, 'rather the worst for drink'. They did return during
January and February.

106.35 Pure FMwere on 30th
and 31st August playing continuous dance music. The purpose their
transmission on Bank Holiday Monday 31st August was apparently
intended to jam Concept FM's output on 106.4. (Get a life, Rodent
Features !)

106.4 Vibe FM
from Dublin was heard here on Merseyside on 20/09 @ 0008. 1998
with a Dance Music format.

106.4 CFM
heard from 8th January with a dance format followed by a full
days transmission on Sunday 8th January.
It continues to do regular weekends.

106.5
Cruise One have announced regular transmissions on the
first Saturday of every month starting in Saturday 5th September
from 8PM. They were testing on 5th July @ 0030 + 2115. Also 9th
August @ 2030 UTC. They also appeared on Saturday October 3rd.
and were heard by us from 2030 BST. Reception reports to : Cruise
One, 9 Watergate, Audenshaw, Tameside, Manchester, M34 5QP or
Email them. october@cruiseone.demon.co.uk The scheduled broadcast on 7/11/98
was cancelled. The next scheduled broadcast was to have been 5th
December but there is an RSL on 106.6 until December 12th. We
have since heard there are no immediate plans for a return of
Cruise.

106.5 (and various test frequencies)COMMODORE CFM Radio are planning to
transmit 24 hours 7 days a week on 106.40 Mhz. from
Dec 22 -Jan 99 Onwards. The line -up will include DJ Chaos and Richie C.
More announcements to follow..

Regular evening tests have now started and
Steve Mason has now joined the station with others to follow.
They were off on New Years Eve and haven't been heard upto now.

106.6 Pure FM.Occasional
Evenings with Steve Mason.

106.7 Concept FM Mixed Music and
free radio news 1st and 2nd January, plus 4th May EMAILConcept
has been off on Bank Holiday Monday (25/05/98) due to Silk FM on
100W from Macclesfield on 106.9. There was no Easter broadcast
either due to an RSL (Shore FM from Rhyl) on 106.6. They were on
August Bank Holiday Monday